Montreal City Weblog

Updates from July, 2025 Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts

• Kate 15:46 on 2025-07-13 Permalink | Reply  

  I want to note this CTV piece about the mishap that occurred early Sunday when an SUV crowded with migrants was involved in a crash with another vehicle near Hemmingford, close to the border, because of terminology. Some were injured but others fled on foot. Reports say that the driver of the other vehicle was arrested for drunk driving.

  CTV fairly reports this story as being about undocumented migrants. CBC cites police calling them illegal immigrants, a discouraged term because it inaccurately portrays individuals as criminals based on their immigration status, which is a civil rather than a criminal offense.

  In French, Radio-Canada calls them migrants clandestins.

  marko and Andrew are discussing. Toggle Comments

   

  • Andrew 09:05 on 2025-07-14 Permalink

    CBC article seems to have been updated to “Irregular’ although illegal is still part of the URL and it’s visible in the RSS feed.

  • marko 11:45 on 2025-07-14 Permalink

    Looks like the quote from the SQ officer was removed for the reasons you mention. I think it is significant the the SQ officer called them “Illegal immigrants” for other reasons, and shows the attitudes of police in the area.

  Reply Cancel reply

  Required fields are marked *

  Name *

  Email *

  Website

  Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

  Δ

• Kate 14:15 on 2025-07-13 Permalink | Reply  

  Two women are now in the race for the mayoralty of Westmount, the election to be held on the same day as most of Quebec’s town elections, November 2. The current mayor – also a woman – is not running again.

  The hot potato in Westmount is whether development will be allowed in the southeast corner of the city, specifically dense high rise towers alongside and around Atwater Library. Mary Gallery is for, Lynne Casgrain is against (see comment from Nicholas, text has since been corrected).

  Kate and Nicholas are discussing. Toggle Comments

   

  • Nicholas 17:26 on 2025-07-13 Permalink

    Kate, you have that swapped: Gallery, currently on council, is in favour (and the plan will likely pass in September), while Casgrain is against.

    As well, three of the last four Westmount mayors have been women (may soon be four of the last five), but this is still Westmount: Gallery is the daughter of a former mayor and the great-great-granddaughter of a mayor of Montreal; Casgrain, the longtime MUHC ombudsperson, is the daughter of the first female MNA, and married to Julius Grey.

  • Kate 17:52 on 2025-07-13 Permalink

    I’ve got to stop speed-reading. Thanks.

• Kate 12:50 on 2025-07-13 Permalink | Reply  

  Local news is slow Sunday, so top headlines on some platforms tell us that the weather is hot and we may get thunderstorms.

  2 pm, noisy thunderstorm over Villeray. Environment Canada weather site is still on “watch”, not “warning”.

  Later, reports of consequences of the rainfall.

  MarcG is discussing. Toggle Comments

   

  • MarcG 07:08 on 2025-07-14 Permalink

    The mostly-finished sponge park near the Atwater water treatment plant had several small ponds in it afterwards – pretty cool to see. Not sure about the dog park that they integrated into it though, which was also a pond… gonna be a lot of dirty dogs walking around in the days after a storm?

• Kate 11:15 on 2025-07-13 Permalink | Reply  

  A Léger survey has found that Quebecers are the happiest in Canada.

  Do you suppose this is why we’re also drinking less alcohol?

  Mark Côté and Kate are discussing. Toggle Comments

   

  • Mark Côté 16:06 on 2025-07-13 Permalink

    That article doesn’t really say we’re drinking less, only that we’re thinking about what we drink more: “Consumers are drinking more thoughtfully, seeking out quality products.”

  • Kate 16:25 on 2025-07-13 Permalink

    I think you’ll be drinking less if you’re sipping an organic orange wine from France vs. a two‑four of Bud Light.

  • Mark Côté 14:20 on 2025-07-14 Permalink

    Haha I dunno if we’re seeing that kind of shift. Plus you can’t buy Bud Light at SAQ stores, where the small decrease was noted (sales to the wholesale grocer network actually rose). I read that article as being about some people just getting fancier/choosier with their booze.

• Kate 10:36 on 2025-07-13 Permalink | Reply  

  This week, both Godin and Chapleau had thoughts on Trump being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Benjamin Netanyahu. Côté on a practical consequence of boycotting U.S. products.

  The firing of SAAQclic honcho Éric Ducharme seen from two different perspectives; likewise François Legault’s satisfaction with his legacy. Chloé on the cost of another study on the 3e lien.

  Côté on Montrealers thinking about moving to Quebec City and on wait times in the ER. (Some of Côté’s current cartoons are reruns for the summer, but still relevant.)

  Godin’s little man is hiding from the news.